You have a weird circle of friends. I don't talk about my personal finances with anyone but my bank ro wife, and I don't know anyone who behaves differently. Somehow, though, you know "several people" whose savings accounts, yearly income level, and past financial history are appearently public knowledge. That's just weird.
You know, I could just about see cooking something inside the case. Make an EZ-Bake oven sort of thing in a 5.25" slot. That sounds like something that's been done before, or at least photoshopped...
What if you accidentally go around all the things stopping you from upgrading to (beta?) Perl 6?:) That'd break a few things (including your record as "good" sysadmin)...
Ideally. However, one can get through college/university just fine without actually *properly* dealing with an alternative viewpoints or cultures, and by merely figuring out "the system" rather than actually learning any useful problem solving skills. The paper's worthless in reality, but unfortunately, many HR departments work slightly outside of reality.
I got out of systems administration in Academia for pretty much the same reason - and now I work primarily with educators who got tired of that setting as well.:) Learning is fun - beurocracy is not...
You mean that they don't want to be involved in continuing education. It doesn't take completion of a History degree to encourage learning, it takes a person who's interested in learning. Programmers that use the same solution over and over without looking for a better way are either bad programmers, in a bad job, or a combination of both.
I've seen many CS/BS types who actually don't know how to program. *That* is my main gripe against blindly requiring a degree. It's an easy filter, but it's not an effective filter. Too bad easy wins out so often...
Wow. Surprisingly, that genuinely makes me happy, too. Look at that - 3 good experiences on Slashdot. I'd drift off onto a rant about how people really oughtta just be nice to each other, and how simple little things like that really would make the world in general more enjoyable - but then I'd be drifting off-topic.:)
Hooray for having enough time to read all of the comments on this Slashdot article (with a score within my reading threshold), go home for the evening, and come to work the next monring, while that link is *still* trying to load. I think I'll press "stop" now and accept that it's really none of my business what's wrong with Pat anyway.
Well, maybe I'll hit reload, just once. I see. Why wasn't the http page linked? http://slackware.com/~volkerdi/PAT-NEEDS-YOUR-HELP.txt
Linus says that Dump's a bad idea - you should consider an alternat backup plan. I'm partial to hardlinked snapshots using rsync and some off-site machines...
You are burning data on both sides. Unfortunately, the computer can only read one side.:)
Anyway, for about teh same cost, you can already burn nearly 4.7GB on a single disk, without flipping it over. It's a DVD-R, and they're pretty commmonly available now.;)/smartass comment
I don't have the time to fiddle with labels. Sometimes, I don't even write a label on with a sharpie. I just label the disk in the burning software. If I'm teh target market, these people will be sorely dissapointed to find that I won't be replacing my burner and media with compatible products - because I'm also too cheap to buy a CD printer and coated disks *now*.
Clearly, scantily-clad women are second only to sticks in the "everything is better on a stick" worldview. Ie, "everything's better with scantily-clad women" or "everything's better when it's done with X-Treme misspellings". It doesn't have to have anything to do with X-Treme scantily-clad women on a stick to be made better by one of those things.
Those people in the SVT group really do a bang-up job with chassis setups... I'm almost equally impressed with the people in those upper classes of drag racing, where they have the atmospheric conditions and the exact effect on their cars down like that. I'm proud of myself if I just manage to get jetting and timing right so that the plugs read slightly tan during street driving...:)
It'd make more sense to scan when purchased, and then to scan again when you noticed that you were "almost" out of the stuff. Possibly one more time when you ran out totally. Scanning every time you use it would be rather pointless, unless you also record the amount used so the amount remaining could be calculated (or maybe used an integrated scale and scanned), and scanning every time would take a lot of extra time. Doing what I suggested would basically speed up grocery list maintaining...
Perhaps I'm missing the obvious, but what's an MP? Military Police is the only thing I'm coming up with, and that doesn't sound correct in context... Sorry, nothing really insightful to add.:)
That billing change - where the cycle date changed (the woman on the phone said that the parent company changed the billing procedure - I wasn't aware that Nextel had a parent company) so one bill was due 3 weeks after a previous bill. Somehow, my cost was still for 4 weeks of service, despite the period only being 3 weeks long. I can't believe I'm the only person in the world that noticed, but I canceled my subscription a few weeks later and went back to Sprint. I was already irritated that they wouldn't do something else that was trivial (and a long story), but the billing change was the icing on the cake. I'm back with Sprint again, since T-Mobile has 0 coverage here (despite maps claiming the opposite), I just don't like Cingular, and I truly hate Verizon. Granted, I hate Verizon because of some bad data / land line dealings (short version: they cost me personally a couple grand through lying, but I'm too lazy to go to court), and VZW is a separate company that mostly just shares a name, but I can't get past that name.:)
I liked the Nextel service, and I didn't use the speaker phone in public places (figure out a wiretap/scanner if you wanna listen to my phone call), but the billing change and inadequate explanation really irritated me.
That's the first drag racer (other than the mostrly street-driven 4 cylinders) that I've heard of wanting any slippage of the tires off the line. Normally, you want the slippage to happen in the engine-tranny coupling system while the car's starting to move - not in the tires. It's the difference between rolling friction and static friction - once the tires have started slipping, they're in static friction, which is much less useful (hence, the advent of ABS on most every new car - locked up tires stop much less effectively than rolling tires), and you need to slow the tires back down in order to go forward / regain control (or add weight, which is fairly impossible). The clutch is under increasing force as it engages, though, and it's gonna slip a little as it is engaged. So, since it's slipping some anyway, it's usually better to extend that slippage a little while keeping the tires under rolling friction (and maybe running some wrinkle-wall slicks, which I assume is the case for a Mustang in the 9's - it takes one heck of a suspension setup to get that quick on radials in the 1/4)...
I'd think that, with a 460 that can throw a mustang into the 9's (this is in the 1/4 and not the 1/8, right?), merely extending the time that the clutch releases by a fraction of a second would help quite a bit. Or running a slightly higher stall torque converter (which is probably already the case if this is a succesful bracket racer, as opposed to just a "go as fast as you can, within the rules" class racer).
BTW, even though I thought the Thunderbird SC *peaked* at about 300ft-lbs, I do think those cars were cool. Sort of like Ford's nearest version to the Grand National. How do you like the lighter, probably better handling Contour in its place? I don't know anyone with the SVT Contour - just a few SVT Tauruseseses...
What "other guy" is trying to say is that multicast is just a "broadcast", much like all of those TV/radio channels out there (but not really the same as a broadcast ping). You have a TV, but you don't get everything that's on every channel, all at once. You just get the channel(s) you've asked to receive. Similarly, multicast capabilities are not likely to affect spam production. You can't just say "send this to every computer on the internet" and have it actually do that - "every computer on the internet" would have to be listening for your broadcast.
If the client's not listening for a broadcast, the client won't receive it. For things like SMTP - where spam comes from - multicast wouldn't be a benefit. For things like "net send", well, I don't care about net send spam. People affected by that are the kinds of people who will always have internet problems (and, there's no likelyhood that it'll change to work with multicasting anyway). Multicast is and will be implemented only for applications where it makes sense, like steraming of high bandwidth data to multiple clients. Lucklily, that describes 0 situations where spam is a real problem.
I don't just "claim" anything - I provided replicable instructions and a link. You provided anecdotal evidence against a file without any backup information except for a made-up path that "might" have come from inside a zip file from someplace on the internet.
Regardless, you say that, since Redhat's inflexible, they're better for large business than SuSE? Have you ever heard of a little company called "Novell"? They used to make file servers that were almost exclusively used in very large installations, and now they own/support SuSE. Can you really not think of a single reason to run software (on multiple machines, even) unsupported by RH? I don't use RHEL because I'm annoyed at the way they treated their smaller customers, and because I don't like the way their distro is set up. I also don't think that the support they provide is worth the cost. My employer pays *me* to support this stuff. It's *my* job to know what's going on. Some other locations may not have me, they may have someone who doesn't know as much. Perhaps *they* should pay for support per-workstation, and be limited in their options so their unknowledgable people don't screw something up. We don't have a need for that - and that's money that could be going into my salary. If I leave, my employer either hires someone who knows what they're doing, or buys the support from SuSE (or whomever).
Basically, if you're scared of flexibility in pricing or configuration, or can't understand options, you fit the stereotype that RedHat users have had for years. That's fine, no one's an expert at everything, but don't go around suggesting that the *only* good way is forced inflexibility.
You drive a 4-cylinder, don't you?:) My cars all have large engines that make excelent bottom-end torque, and they generally run torque convertors that have a stall speed appropriate to the engine's power band. I spin the impeller inside of the TC, not the tires...;) That tire spin thing was something that I just couldn't get used to - when I was driving a 4-cyl for a while. So, it's gone and I'm back to big ol' V8's.
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You have a weird circle of friends. I don't talk about my personal finances with anyone but my bank ro wife, and I don't know anyone who behaves differently. Somehow, though, you know "several people" whose savings accounts, yearly income level, and past financial history are appearently public knowledge. That's just weird.
You know, I could just about see cooking something inside the case. Make an EZ-Bake oven sort of thing in a 5.25" slot. That sounds like something that's been done before, or at least photoshopped...
At first, I thought "Why woudl my RAM want Pizzas?" Then I read the article, and I still thought "Why?"...
What if you accidentally go around all the things stopping you from upgrading to (beta?) Perl 6? :) That'd break a few things (including your record as "good" sysadmin)...
Ideally. However, one can get through college/university just fine without actually *properly* dealing with an alternative viewpoints or cultures, and by merely figuring out "the system" rather than actually learning any useful problem solving skills. The paper's worthless in reality, but unfortunately, many HR departments work slightly outside of reality.
I got out of systems administration in Academia for pretty much the same reason - and now I work primarily with educators who got tired of that setting as well. :) Learning is fun - beurocracy is not...
You mean that they don't want to be involved in continuing education. It doesn't take completion of a History degree to encourage learning, it takes a person who's interested in learning. Programmers that use the same solution over and over without looking for a better way are either bad programmers, in a bad job, or a combination of both.
I've seen many CS/BS types who actually don't know how to program. *That* is my main gripe against blindly requiring a degree. It's an easy filter, but it's not an effective filter. Too bad easy wins out so often...
Wow. Surprisingly, that genuinely makes me happy, too. Look at that - 3 good experiences on Slashdot. I'd drift off onto a rant about how people really oughtta just be nice to each other, and how simple little things like that really would make the world in general more enjoyable - but then I'd be drifting off-topic. :)
Hooray for having enough time to read all of the comments on this Slashdot article (with a score within my reading threshold), go home for the evening, and come to work the next monring, while that link is *still* trying to load. I think I'll press "stop" now and accept that it's really none of my business what's wrong with Pat anyway.
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Well, maybe I'll hit reload, just once. I see. Why wasn't the http page linked? http://slackware.com/~volkerdi/PAT-NEEDS-YOUR-HEL
You've had mostly bad expereinces? Well, that sucks. I'm a good person (as far as you know), and I'm replying to your post. Have a nice day.
Linus says that Dump's a bad idea - you should consider an alternat backup plan. I'm partial to hardlinked snapshots using rsync and some off-site machines...
http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3
You are burning data on both sides. Unfortunately, the computer can only read one side. :)
;) /smartass comment
Anyway, for about teh same cost, you can already burn nearly 4.7GB on a single disk, without flipping it over. It's a DVD-R, and they're pretty commmonly available now.
I don't have the time to fiddle with labels. Sometimes, I don't even write a label on with a sharpie. I just label the disk in the burning software. If I'm teh target market, these people will be sorely dissapointed to find that I won't be replacing my burner and media with compatible products - because I'm also too cheap to buy a CD printer and coated disks *now*.
I thought clearchannel was a big ol' radio station owning group, and not a description...
Clearly, scantily-clad women are second only to sticks in the "everything is better on a stick" worldview. Ie, "everything's better with scantily-clad women" or "everything's better when it's done with X-Treme misspellings". It doesn't have to have anything to do with X-Treme scantily-clad women on a stick to be made better by one of those things.
Sometimes, I hate society.
Those people in the SVT group really do a bang-up job with chassis setups... I'm almost equally impressed with the people in those upper classes of drag racing, where they have the atmospheric conditions and the exact effect on their cars down like that. I'm proud of myself if I just manage to get jetting and timing right so that the plugs read slightly tan during street driving... :)
One day, I'll get that Mustang chassis dyno though. One day...
Ah. That's contextually plausible. :) Thanks.
It'd make more sense to scan when purchased, and then to scan again when you noticed that you were "almost" out of the stuff. Possibly one more time when you ran out totally. Scanning every time you use it would be rather pointless, unless you also record the amount used so the amount remaining could be calculated (or maybe used an integrated scale and scanned), and scanning every time would take a lot of extra time. Doing what I suggested would basically speed up grocery list maintaining...
Perhaps I'm missing the obvious, but what's an MP? Military Police is the only thing I'm coming up with, and that doesn't sound correct in context... Sorry, nothing really insightful to add. :)
That billing change - where the cycle date changed (the woman on the phone said that the parent company changed the billing procedure - I wasn't aware that Nextel had a parent company) so one bill was due 3 weeks after a previous bill. Somehow, my cost was still for 4 weeks of service, despite the period only being 3 weeks long. I can't believe I'm the only person in the world that noticed, but I canceled my subscription a few weeks later and went back to Sprint. I was already irritated that they wouldn't do something else that was trivial (and a long story), but the billing change was the icing on the cake. I'm back with Sprint again, since T-Mobile has 0 coverage here (despite maps claiming the opposite), I just don't like Cingular, and I truly hate Verizon. Granted, I hate Verizon because of some bad data / land line dealings (short version: they cost me personally a couple grand through lying, but I'm too lazy to go to court), and VZW is a separate company that mostly just shares a name, but I can't get past that name. :)
I liked the Nextel service, and I didn't use the speaker phone in public places (figure out a wiretap/scanner if you wanna listen to my phone call), but the billing change and inadequate explanation really irritated me.
That's the first drag racer (other than the mostrly street-driven 4 cylinders) that I've heard of wanting any slippage of the tires off the line. Normally, you want the slippage to happen in the engine-tranny coupling system while the car's starting to move - not in the tires. It's the difference between rolling friction and static friction - once the tires have started slipping, they're in static friction, which is much less useful (hence, the advent of ABS on most every new car - locked up tires stop much less effectively than rolling tires), and you need to slow the tires back down in order to go forward / regain control (or add weight, which is fairly impossible). The clutch is under increasing force as it engages, though, and it's gonna slip a little as it is engaged. So, since it's slipping some anyway, it's usually better to extend that slippage a little while keeping the tires under rolling friction (and maybe running some wrinkle-wall slicks, which I assume is the case for a Mustang in the 9's - it takes one heck of a suspension setup to get that quick on radials in the 1/4)...
I'd think that, with a 460 that can throw a mustang into the 9's (this is in the 1/4 and not the 1/8, right?), merely extending the time that the clutch releases by a fraction of a second would help quite a bit. Or running a slightly higher stall torque converter (which is probably already the case if this is a succesful bracket racer, as opposed to just a "go as fast as you can, within the rules" class racer).
BTW, even though I thought the Thunderbird SC *peaked* at about 300ft-lbs, I do think those cars were cool. Sort of like Ford's nearest version to the Grand National. How do you like the lighter, probably better handling Contour in its place? I don't know anyone with the SVT Contour - just a few SVT Tauruseseses...
What "other guy" is trying to say is that multicast is just a "broadcast", much like all of those TV/radio channels out there (but not really the same as a broadcast ping). You have a TV, but you don't get everything that's on every channel, all at once. You just get the channel(s) you've asked to receive. Similarly, multicast capabilities are not likely to affect spam production. You can't just say "send this to every computer on the internet" and have it actually do that - "every computer on the internet" would have to be listening for your broadcast.
If the client's not listening for a broadcast, the client won't receive it. For things like SMTP - where spam comes from - multicast wouldn't be a benefit. For things like "net send", well, I don't care about net send spam. People affected by that are the kinds of people who will always have internet problems (and, there's no likelyhood that it'll change to work with multicasting anyway). Multicast is and will be implemented only for applications where it makes sense, like steraming of high bandwidth data to multiple clients. Lucklily, that describes 0 situations where spam is a real problem.
I don't just "claim" anything - I provided replicable instructions and a link. You provided anecdotal evidence against a file without any backup information except for a made-up path that "might" have come from inside a zip file from someplace on the internet.
Regardless, you say that, since Redhat's inflexible, they're better for large business than SuSE? Have you ever heard of a little company called "Novell"? They used to make file servers that were almost exclusively used in very large installations, and now they own/support SuSE. Can you really not think of a single reason to run software (on multiple machines, even) unsupported by RH? I don't use RHEL because I'm annoyed at the way they treated their smaller customers, and because I don't like the way their distro is set up. I also don't think that the support they provide is worth the cost. My employer pays *me* to support this stuff. It's *my* job to know what's going on. Some other locations may not have me, they may have someone who doesn't know as much. Perhaps *they* should pay for support per-workstation, and be limited in their options so their unknowledgable people don't screw something up. We don't have a need for that - and that's money that could be going into my salary. If I leave, my employer either hires someone who knows what they're doing, or buys the support from SuSE (or whomever).
Basically, if you're scared of flexibility in pricing or configuration, or can't understand options, you fit the stereotype that RedHat users have had for years. That's fine, no one's an expert at everything, but don't go around suggesting that the *only* good way is forced inflexibility.
You drive a 4-cylinder, don't you? :) My cars all have large engines that make excelent bottom-end torque, and they generally run torque convertors that have a stall speed appropriate to the engine's power band. I spin the impeller inside of the TC, not the tires... ;) That tire spin thing was something that I just couldn't get used to - when I was driving a 4-cyl for a while. So, it's gone and I'm back to big ol' V8's.
I hope "their" was meant to be ironic... :)